“We must not only vote but fight to vote. The voting booth really is the one place on earth where the least powerful equal the powerful. p176” 

“Voting isn't the most we can do, but the least. To have a democracy, you have to want one.” 

“I've noticed that great political leaders are energized by conflict. I'm energized by listening to people's stories and trying to figure out shared solutions. That's the work of an organizer.” 

“I'm also now immune to politicians who say, "I've traveled the length and breadth of this great land, and I know..." I've traveled more than any of them, and I don't know.” 

“I began to see that for some, religion was just a form of politics you couldn’t criticize.” 

“I will develop the areas that vote for me, but if you don't vote for me, don't expect anything.”

“Every Westerner is jubilating that the Berlin Wall has fallen. Something worst than the Berlin Wall is in Palestine; and nobody is talking about it.”

“I began to see that for some, religion was just a form of politics you couldn’t criticize.” 

“Remember: "For want of a nail, the horseshoe was lost, for want of a horseshoe, the horse was lost, for want of a horse, the battle was lost, for want of a battle, the war was lost." This parable should be the mantra of everyone who thinks her or his vote doesn't count.” 

“It is a good sign in a nation when things are done badly. It shows that all the people are doing them. And it is bad sign in a nation when such things are done very well, for it shows that only a few experts and eccentrics are doing them, and that the nation is merely looking on.” 

“It is hard to make government representative when it is also remote.”

“There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.” 

“It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.” 

“When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.” 

“For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.” 

“If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.” 

“Men are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern.”

“When you break the big laws, you do not get freedom; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.”

“The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man.”

“America is the only country ever founded on a creed.” – “What is America?”

“Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.” 

“I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to refute him – rather than that he should gain in the most enlightened school the cunning to copy him.” 

 At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence

Voting is the foundation stone for political action.